Surviving Endless Disasters

The last time Huang Mingchang and Huang Mingqing came to visit, in addition to telling Wen Zheng the news, they also asked Wen Zheng if he minded people living around his house. At least Huang Mingqing was very moved.

This idea was first proposed by Huang Mingqing, who asked the village chief to talk to the villagers about the matter on the condition that he would no longer compete with Huang Mingchang.

After a few months, outsiders came to live in the village. It was better for them to be united in dealing with the outside world and not to cause internal strife.

Huang Mingqing is very sensitive to some things. He will not leave the village within a few years after returning to the village this time, but the house he lives in is a big problem.

In the past, many villagers in the village went out to work, and Huang Mingqing's parents were like this.

He sold the old house at home and went out to make a living, and later took out a loan to buy a house. Only when Huang Mingqing got married, he married a girl from the next village in the old house in the village.

The quality of this old house is better than the one left by Wen Zheng's grandmother. Wang Jing spent a lot of time cleaning it, but it can only be barely lived in.

Look at what's going on now. Even if Huang Mingqing has a lot of hard currency specially exchanged, at this time, whether he is renovating an old house or building a new one, he will have to bleed a lot.

Now that the superiors have notified that they will send people to build houses in rural areas, Huang Mingqing certainly cannot miss this opportunity. If he can change houses, it is already the most cost-effective way.

This time the village chief raised the matter, several villagers who were in the same situation as Huang Mingqing and who had just returned after the snowstorm had the same idea.

Wen Zheng has no control over what they think. He is strong and doesn't have to worry about who his neighbors are. But compared to people outside, of course, villagers who have been with him for a long time are better off.

He has seen the village chief's behavior these days, and the last time the army came over, he even tried to cover up what was wrong with the birds.

It's too early to talk about changing the house now. The new house has not been built yet. How those people planned it has nothing to do with Wen Zheng.

At present, the biggest thing for the villagers is to build a protective circle and take good care of the food planted in the fields.

The villagers dug wide ditches, made traps with various materials in the ditch, and then prepared to transplant the pepper trees planted in the village on the side of the ditch close to the village.

There aren't many stones on the east mountain that Sanlihe Village relies on. If you want to buy bricks and other materials to build a house but can't part with money or food, you should focus on the natural barrier for the time being.

During the snowstorm two years ago, many plants were frozen.

Now that spring is coming and flowers are blooming, some trees have completely lost their hope and have not grown new leaves. All of them have been chopped down into firewood and stored by the villagers.

Some survived the cold winter, but they also mutated and began to grow wildly after the temperature rose, and they were different from before.

The Zanthoxylum bungeanum tree is a common tree in Sanlihe Village. It was originally planted in front of the door. It can be used as an ornamental plant and harvest seasoning. Now it can also serve as a barrier.

The pepper trees that survived the snowstorm have grown much taller, and what’s even more scary are the sharp thorns on their branches.

Normal people have to be careful when picking pepper trees. If they accidentally cut their hands on those sharp thorns, the length of those thorns is now more than twice as long as normal, and they have become very hard.

Transplanting the mutated Zanthoxylum bungeanum tree serves as a natural barrier. Not only can it keep out animals, at least those animals that hit the spikes will scream to remind the villagers, and injuries will also weaken their combat effectiveness.

After deciding to transplant these pepper trees, the villagers just dug the trenches and got their farm tools back to work again.

Carefully tie the branches of the pepper tree together with a rope and start digging into the soft soil from a distance.

"The roots of this tree are too deep!" Some villagers complained while digging. The soil had been dug quite deep, but all the roots of the Zanthoxylum bungeanum tree had not been dug out.

The villagers nearby nodded: "It feels more tiring than digging trenches.

"When transplanting trees, try not to damage the root system of the plants, because this makes them more difficult.

"Ansheng's life has not lasted long. He has been farming in the village all his life and has never even left our province. Now he stays in the village and dare not go out easily.

"The villager who spoke was over five years old. He had a really hard time when he was a child. He saw that his life was getting better and better, but in the end he went back to the past again.

“We didn’t live in a house like this at that time. We used adobe bricks to build the house and thatch for the roof. We couldn’t afford meat. We occasionally caught some fish and shrimp to make tooth sacrifices.

"I'm living well now, but the danger is much greater. The food is okay, but I have to be sparing with the meat."

"While the villagers were digging ditches, animals on the mountain began to mutate one after another. Animals raised at home also began to mutate, but the probability of domestic animals was lower.

Because of the mutated animals, the villagers have been careful, and the strong dogs have been tied up with iron chains. Now they are still bitten by the dogs, and it is difficult to get a rabies vaccine.

Cats with such flexible movements are also tied up. Ordinary mice only need repellent. Those crazy mice have no brains to run back to other people's houses. They basically pounce on people walking on the road when they see them.

The chicken pens and duck pens were changed from nets to wood. These two animals are not lethal enough.

The villagers had taken measures, but they still felt a little uncomfortable when all the domestic animals mutated.

The first thing that became crazy was the dog. From far away, you could hear the crazy barking and the sound of the chain being pulled, which was frightening.

The villagers have grown a lot after such a long experience. After taking good protection, they used hoes to deal with the crazy dog, burned it and buried it in the ground.

That dog was the beginning. Soon, many domestic animals in the village gradually changed. Cats and dogs were tied up by chains. Although chickens and ducks were kept in wooden pens, they broke apart after going crazy. Or it flew directly out of the wooden railing and attacked people.

"Last time, I was pecked hard twice by that chicken. If I hadn't been wearing thick clothes, my flesh would have been pecked off. I still feel a little pain.

"A young man recalled and touched his right arm.

"We're pretty good here. The chickens and ducks aren't very powerful. Just be careful and you can solve it.

Yesterday I saw on TV that someone's goose went crazy.

Even if I encounter a normal goose, I will walk around. Just think about how scary the crazy goose is.

"The face of the person who said this was full of worry.

Although there are communication problems from time to time, villagers who dare not go out after dark will still turn on the TV to pass the time, and occasionally they can still see the situation in other areas.

Wen Zheng also saw a lot of things outside.

The main dilemmas faced by rural areas and cities are different. Families living in rural areas have surplus food at home. The biggest problem they face is those animals that suddenly go crazy and attack humans.

As for residents in the city, there are relatively few animals. They usually stay at home and use cars and other enclosed means of transportation when going out. It is generally difficult to be attacked. There are also police who patrol every day to look for crazy animals.

Urban residents are facing food problems. The price of food in supermarkets is gradually rising. Each person has a daily limit to buy food. There are long queues outside supermarkets.

The food situation is indeed not very good now. The weather in the east is still too cold to plant crops. In the south, it has started to rain lightly since April.

There wasn't much rain, but it was reminiscent of last year's floods.

Although there is a lot of grain reserves, but considering the problem of plant mutation, who knows what changes will happen in the next few years. The state is controlling the share of grain entering the market.

The news channels were all reporting domestic news, but Wen Zheng went to the external network by himself.

The situation in most countries and regions is more serious. In some countries, the situation is extremely miserable. Wen Zheng felt his heart tightening when he looked at those photos. Famine has already appeared there.