happy apocalypse

Chapter 126
It is now mid-April, and I have gone from going to the greenhouse every day and not getting out, to not necessarily going in once a day.Everyone knew my personality very well, and they didn't express any surprise at my change. Mother Qu even showed me the expression you should have.

I saw that everyone was so caring, so I simply left all the work in the shed to the eldest sister, second sister, and Weiwei, and I became a hands-off shopkeeper myself.

I calculated the time of spring, it should be soon, but I don't know the exact time.Every day, I listen to my elder sister and the others talking in my ears about how the rice seedlings in the greenhouse are doing, such as "the rice seedlings are growing", "my uncle said that the temperature is low, the rice seedlings should not grow", "tomorrow we will I can’t water it anymore, and now I have to keep it in a dry state” and so on.

They all found their own joy in planting rice seedlings. Even Li Cheng couldn't leave the book in his hand, flipping through the book every day to see how the rice fields were grown.

Unknowingly, at the end of April, the weather began to change a little.

Spring is here, although it is a bit late, but it is still here.

From the end of April, the temperature starts to rise.The sun hangs high in the sky, but it is not as cold as it was a few days ago, but it makes people feel the warmth of Sisi.Within a few days, the thick snow on the ground melted into ice water and seeped into the ground. The sky and the earth were no longer white. The forest behind the village took off its heavy winter clothes and became full of vitality.

The villagers of Tashan Village have been hiding at home for several months, and at this time they all came out of their homes one by one.When I saw neighbors on the road, they greeted each other with smiles, and the parents gave short greetings.

Winter has passed and spring has come, bringing people infinite hope.

Just when every household was preparing for spring plowing, the village head sent a child to notify each household that a meeting would be held in the village committee compound in the evening, requiring each household to send someone to attend.

This is the first time for our family to participate in this kind of group activity, and we must support it, so our family went with Jiang Dad, Qu Dad and our couple with 5 children.

On the way to the village committee, the children disappeared without a trace. Jiang Zhi and I didn't care. The children have been suffocated for more than a month, and they can only play at home all day. Finally, the weather is good. , I can finally come out and run wildly, of course I have to have fun.

The village committee is a large compound, with a long row of houses in the middle, a sign on the roof that reads "Tashan Village Committee", and small wooden signs on the outside of each house, "Family Planning Office" " Finance" and so on, I see that the whole thing is quite complete.

A long table was set up near the house in the courtyard, which seemed to be the position of the village chief, and there were many long benches under it, and many villagers were already sitting on it, chatting in twos and threes, watching When we came in, he lowered his chatting voice and looked at us with scrutinizing eyes. I think it might be because everything our family has done in the past month has been a little high-profile.

As soon as I came back, I took the house back with a strong attitude, and then started to freeze the ice in a big way, and planted upland rice in the greenhouse at home more than a month ago.It is estimated that every family will have to discuss these unusual practices of our family.

We ignored the inquisitive eyes of the villagers, and when we saw the little uncle who had come earlier, we moved a bench and sat together.

After a while, basically everyone in the village arrived. When the village head walked towards the long table in front, the people below all applauded in a very respectful way. It is estimated that everyone is crazy at home. This time it can be regarded as someone who can see People have a chance, so they are extremely excited.

The village head was very polite. He stood behind the long table and raised his hands to his chest. After being pressed by all the villagers, he sat down when he saw that everyone was quiet, and announced the start of the meeting.

"Everyone is quiet, we have a formal meeting.

At this time, everyone is called together, and it has been said in the notice that it is best for each family to send a representative, because there are several important things to say this time.

The first one is that the weather is good, and our village is about to start preparing for spring plowing. Although the field is still too muddy for people to enter, we have to raise seedlings at home.

Originally, our village planted rice late this year due to the weather. Now that the weather is good, we must hurry up and plant rice as soon as possible.

What's more, no matter how much or how little food the family has, they are not allowed to sell food.I went to the county two days ago. Our county is considered an agricultural county, so we survived the snow disaster. You don’t know that many cities outside have no food. After the weather gets better , some people want to buy grain from our county, but with this snowstorm, we should have a sense of urgency. You said that if the harvest is not good this year, or this winter is still so cold, we will have no grain in our hands. What to do? "

"Village chief, what if someone is greedy for money and secretly sells the grain?" A villager asked this question, alluding to Chen Cuihua's family last year.

"Greedy? Why are you greedy for money? Now you go outside with money, but no one sells you anything. Now you are willing to exchange things. How stupid are we? We are not willing to take food for food now. If someone really doesn’t believe in evil and sells it for money, then I’m sorry, if you have no food to eat, we big guys don’t care about it.”

Chen Cuihua, who was sitting below, was a little dazed when she heard the village chief say that the money is not easy to use now, and then asked the village chief again in disbelief: "Village chief, is it really difficult to use money outside?"

"I went there once and didn't meet any sellers who were willing to take money. They were all exchanged for things."

"Ah~, what can I do, isn't my family's old money all useless?" Chen Cuihua slid off the bench and started crying when she reached the ground.

I heard some villagers comment that she is crying more miserable than when her parents died. I hurriedly covered up and lowered my head, hiding behind Jiang Zhi and secretly smiling. This is really not an ordinary person.

The meeting was interrupted by Chen Cuihua's crying. The village head was very impatient. Seeing Chen Cuihua patting the ground again, he said to the man standing behind her who only knew how to rub his hands back and forth: "Chen Dasheng, can you A bit manly, take care of your wife?"

Chen Dasheng stood there at a loss, not knowing what to do.

The village head felt helpless when he saw him, and said to Chen Cuihua, who was on the ground: "Why are you crying and making trouble? I didn't let you sell grain at the beginning. You insisted on selling it. Why do you have the face to cry now? Go back to your house and cry with your son."

The village chief saw that he had no effect, so he said to her: "Okay, you can shut your mouth now, if you are crying, let a few people send you back, and you don't have to participate in the next meeting." .”

This sentence had an effect on her, Chen Cuihua said: "Why don't I participate."

With that said, the crying in his mouth stopped.

The village head saw that Chen Cuihua had stopped, so he continued the meeting.

"Where did we talk?" The village chief made Chen Cuihua cry a little confused, not knowing what to say.

"No one cares about money anymore, we can't sell grain." A villager below reminded the village chief.

"By the way, don't be greedy for money and don't sell food." The village chief slapped his head and remembered.

"Then let's talk about the second thing. The second thing is also about our spring plowing. Our village now has two tractors. In previous years, if you wanted to borrow them, it would cost 100 yuan a day. You should prepare the oil yourself. This year The conditions of the old Lu’s family said that they will change, and the oil should be prepared by themselves, but this year there will be no money, and the food will be handed over. 10 catties of rice a day. Just remember, let's arrange them in the order of first come, first served, so as to save fights over whoever uses them first." After the village chief finished speaking, he took a sip from the large tea cup on the table.

When the village chief finished the first thing, everyone had no idea, but when he said the second thing, everyone started talking to each other.

"Why do we still need food? My family doesn't have much food."

"That's a good thing, it's still cheap."

"Is the gas station still open now, can I buy diesel oil?"

After listening to all kinds of discussions from the villagers, I wondered if the village chief had political awareness and kept pace with the times?

Although the weather is better now, and some industries in the country have resumed production one after another, most people are tortured by the snowstorm that just ended, and they don't accept food but not money.The village head also exchanged the money for food.

"The third thing is the power problem in our village. I went to the county yesterday and found the relevant leaders. I wanted to ask if the power outage in our village can be repaired in the near future. I wondered about our spring plowing. It’s much more convenient when there’s electricity, isn’t it?”

When the villagers heard that it was a power repair problem, they all applauded, "To the village chief, it's time for them to fix the power for us."

"It's been a few months since I opened my eyes and went blind. Now that the weather is better, it's time for us to fix it."

"Everyone be quiet, listen to me first, listen to me first. I told the county leaders about the situation in our village, but the county leaders also said that the county has no conditions to repair the electricity in these surrounding villages and towns. If we must repair it now, he can think of a way to find a few technicians, but our village has to bear the cost." The village chief also looked helpless, and it seemed that spring plowing was about to begin, and there was no electricity. It's so inconvenient.

"Why do we have to pay for it ourselves? It's not like this before. Shouldn't this be managed by the state?" Some villagers were a little unhappy when they heard the village chief say that they had to pay for the repairs themselves.

"Everyone has to understand that this year we have suffered from snowstorms all over the country. You don't know that people with old noses died in the city. They either died of starvation or were eaten. Think about it, everyone is hungry. Cannibalism, what a serious situation it must be. Thanks to the people in our village who didn’t sell their food last year, they were able to survive this snowstorm. The county leaders said that there are only a few maintenance workers. If we don’t, our village won’t be able to receive electricity for another two months, and if we agree to bear the cost, let them repair it for our village first.”

After hearing this, some villagers asked hesitantly: "Village chief, if we bear the expenses ourselves, how much will our family have to pay?"

The village chief explained in the front: "People don't need money now, they need food, and they need 1000 catties for one use. Our village used to have 47 households. After the old Jiang's family moved back from the city, it became 50 households. 20 catties of rice for each of our family is just right."

The little uncle refuted the village chief as soon as he heard it: "Village chief, you did your calculations wrong. Even including my sister-in-law's family, there are only 48 households."

The village head slowly picked up the water cup and took another sip of tea and said, "Isn't it divided into three families now? Then it must be counted as three families."

"Then how can it be counted as three, they are..." The little uncle heard the village head say this, and wanted to argue with the village head.

Jiang Zhi grabbed his little uncle and said to the village chief, "Okay, we count as three families. No matter what we pay in the future, we will count it as three families."

As soon as the village head said that the number of households had changed from 47 to 50, we understood that this was the last time the village head had been offended, and he wanted to punish us.

After hearing this, Lao Li's family looked at us with glee and smiled, thinking that we would also suffer a bad loss, and they also relieved their anger.

But it's better for us, we don't care about the food, we think it's good for us to count it separately.

"Okay, have representatives from all 50 households come here now? If they all come, let's show our hands to decide whether to connect to the electricity. After all, this is not my business alone, but everyone's business. Right to decide, for the sake of fairness, the family will send a representative. If more than half of them agree, we will collect the food and repair the electricity immediately. If most of them disagree, then we will wait. Okay, now we agree to hand over the food Please raise your hand if the power is repaired immediately."

The villagers below all asked each other, some raised their hands after speaking, while others shook their heads.

The result of the final statistics is that 41 households agreed to pay for food and repair electricity as soon as possible, among which our family accounted for 3 votes.

The village chief announced in front: "Okay, since most people agree to hand over the grain, let's collect grain at the compound of the village committee at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Everyone, please consciously order, don't be late tomorrow. Okay, Dismiss the meeting."

As soon as the village chief announced the end of the meeting, several families scrambled to find the village chief and the big householder in the village, Lu Guoan.We were still confused here, but my uncle explained to us: "This is for queuing up to use tractors. There are only two tractors in our village, one at the village head's house and one at Lu Guoan's house."

My Lala Jiangzhi said: "Let's rent a tractor for a day. Our family has a lot of land. We have plowed the paddy fields long ago, so we can transplant the rice seedlings at home. There are really some rice seedlings in our greenhouse." Squeezed."

"Okay, I'll go to line up now." Jiang Zhi agreed with me.

"Then which platoon are you going to?" I asked Jiang Zhi who wanted to leave.

Jiang Zhi just smiled when he heard my question, "Of course it's the village chief, we are familiar with him. Don't be narrow-minded."

I rolled my eyes at him: "Whenever I was too narrow-minded, I was just afraid that he would be narrow-minded and try to make things worse for us."

"Don't worry, he has been the village chief for so many years, so he still has a bit of guts, otherwise he would have gone somewhere somewhere."

The facts were exactly as Jiang Zhi expected. When Jiang Zhi told the village chief that he wanted to use his tractor within two days, the village chief agreed with a smile on his face.In fact, our family does not need to queue up. The earliest other people’s appointments are in late May, and our appointment is two days later, so we can’t afford any conflicts.

(End of this chapter)