Chapter Twenty-Six: I Want to Go Back to the Countryside
The capital of N province, in an ordinary high-rise building.
"Mom, I'm ......hungry," a little girl said to her mother, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, as she lay on the bed.
"Wait, Mom is going to make you soup!" Hearing the little girl cry out that she was hungry, the little girl's mother slowly got up and prepared to go to the kitchen.
It's not that she doesn't want to cook for her daughter, it's just that she's hungry and has no strength, and her movements are too large, so she gets dizzy easily.
"Mom, I want to eat rice......" the little girl licked her lips.
"Niuniu, there is no rice at home, let's drink vegetable soup, obedient, ah?"
The woman turned her head and wiped her tears, saying that it was vegetable soup, but in fact it was just boiling some sweet potato leaves and sweet potato stalks with the water stored at home.
"I'll go pick up a sweet potato for Niuniu to eat." Next to it, Niu Niu's father said.
"Then the sweet potato can grow a few more days, and now that I have pulled it, it is not cost-effective." Women always have to think about the future of this family, and the more sweet potatoes grow, the more they can harvest in the future.
"It's been two or three months, and I've been drinking this soup every day, we can bear it, but Niuniu...... Look at Niu Niu's face, just give the child one to eat! ”
The man really feels sorry for his daughter, his daughter is only four years old, and they both had a good job in the past.
Since the high temperature in May, the government still has relief food at the beginning, but later, each person can get less and less relief food, until finally, the government brought sweet potato seedlings and let each family go home to plant sweet potatoes in the house.
Relying on some food storage, when the sweet potato leaves could be eaten, they began to drink vegetable soup made with sweet potato leaves and sweet potato stalks every day, and of course their daughter had to suffer with them.
"As far as you know that I feel sorry for my daughter, I don't know, I'm not thinking about the future, I remember that we still have two bottles of glucose you bought? Why don't you give your child a drink of that? ”
"Glucose will still be useful in the future, if the child wants to eat something hungry, just give her a sweet potato, and I will eat less in the future."
After saying that, he turned his head and went to the living room to dig sweet potatoes.
After digging the sweet potatoes, I scooped half a bowl of water and washed them carefully, and steamed them in the pot at home.
"It smells so good, Mom!" The little girl smiled.
"I'll be able to eat it soon, ah!" The woman is also immersed in the aroma of steamed sweet potatoes.
"Hmm!"
After a while
"The sweet potatoes are steamed, we can eat sweet potatoes!" The man blew the steamed sweet potato and brought it over.
The two of them sat around the bed, watching the little girl swallow the sweet potato.
Niuniu ate two bites, and then handed the sweet potato to her parents, "Mom and Dad, you eat." ”
"Mom and Dad aren't hungry, Niuniu eats." The two of them refused to eat this sweet potato, Niuniu could only eat the sweet potato slowly and carefully by herself, eating it with the skin, and as soon as there was a residue that fell, she quickly picked it up and ate it.
Watching his daughter eat, the man said to the woman one thing he had been thinking about for a long time.
"In the past two days, I have thought for a long time, or, when the sweet potatoes are harvested, let's go back to my rural hometown, take your father and your mother, after our father left, the house in my hometown has been empty, three floors, even if we all live in it, the remaining area will be much larger than now, and more sweet potatoes can be planted, and the rural population is not much, and every family knows it, and it is much safer than this!"
After hearing this, the woman was silent, and thought for a while before she spoke, "Even if you go back to your rural hometown, how can we go?" ”
That's the point, no car, no one, even if it's in the same province, it's hard to go back.
This sentence stopped the man at once, "I can't go back now, wait, wait to see if there is a convoy, it's a big deal that the sweet potatoes are harvested, let's get more food and let the convoy take us away." ”
This kind of conversation is not only happening in this family, but in addition to the people who live in villas, many families living in the city are discussing whether to go to the countryside.
Some people want to go back to the countryside, thinking that the area of the house in the countryside is large, how can indoor planting ensure that people will not starve to death; I feel that the village is far away and close to the neighbors, and it is safe......
Some people are reluctant to go back, feeling that they have finally come out of the countryside, and it will be a shame to go back; I feel that maybe this disaster will pass soon, and I am quite strong; I feel that the news in rural areas is closed and I cannot receive government policies and support in a timely manner......
In the city, as soon as it gets dark, some gangs come out, smashing and looting, and the residents who live in the low floors are in panic, and those who live in the high floors are also worried about whether it will be their turn in the end.
Of course, there are troops patrolling here every day, but in the city, there are too many corners and corners, and the result of the rapid development of the city is that there are countless small alleys, and the small detachments of the troops are not enough, and the people are scattered and cannot form an effective blow to criminals, and they are also easy to be attacked, and the communication is cut off, and they cannot receive the alarm in time, and often when the troops arrive, there is only one wreckage left, and unless they happen to run into it, the troops can quickly arrest people.
What is happening in the city now, the news is closed, and the forest trees far away in the countryside certainly don't know, and he is now listening to the army's safety lecture in the cultural square of their village.
The lecture venue is lit up entirely by mobile vending trucks of trees.
"There have been no malignant incidents in our village and nearby, but we still have to take precautions, when there are unfamiliar faces in the village, it is very likely that the criminal gang is stepping on the point, at this time, when we are patrolling, we must report to the patrolling soldiers in time......"
Zhang Cheng on the stage chattered endlessly about various precautions, and the villagers in the audience listened attentively, after all, this is now a matter of life and wealth.
"Finally, it is the soldiers of our army who teach you the basic physical strengthening techniques, if you have the ability, you must train it, and in the future, even if you escape, you can run faster!" After speaking, Zhang Cheng asked a little soldier to come on stage to show, and he got off the stage and walked to Lin Mu.
"Brother Zhang has worked hard!"
"I didn't do anything." Zhang Cheng's words are true.
"In a few days, the troops may send people to station in various villages...... "Without violating discipline and within the scope of his authority, Zhang Cheng can make it easier for Lin Mu, including leaking information in advance."
"This feeling is good, there are troops stationed, isn't it safer."
"I'll try to try to come to your village, are you welcome?"
"Of course welcome, in the future, if you want to be stationed in our village, you must come to my house to taste the cabbage and egg-filled dumplings made by my mother, oops, take a bite of DC oil, it's delicious!" Lin Mu said with a grin. (Similarly, the author has never eaten dumplings filled with cabbage and eggs, in the last days, you can eat whatever you have at hand, how can there be so many conditions to eat dumplings filled with leeks and eggs)
Hearing Lin Mu's words, Zhang Cheng smiled and quickly straightened his face again.