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    Sure enough, Zhao Meigui did what she said, and actually opened a shop in the city, specializing in switching coarse and fine grains, and getting a certain percentage of commission from it. The business is actually pretty good, and people who don¡¯t have enough food at home often come to use it.  Refined grains are exchanged for coarse grains. Occasionally, those who do not lack food will exchange some fine grains and go back to improve their lives.

    After Qin Sheng knew the location of the store, she forgot about it. She hasn't predicted any natural disasters yet, and she doesn't want to have too frequent contacts with Zhao Meigui. More importantly, after the Spring Festival, the village began to deal with the snow  up.

    The reservoir was first piled up with snow, and it is estimated that the small reservoir will be full after the ice and snow melt. Then, every household digs water cellars in their idle places. This is not an easy job.  The permafrost is still hard, and the permafrost layer must be more than half a meter deep. If you go down with an iron pick, you can only dig out a shallow hole.

    This is hard work, but it would be easier to dig the water cellar if you wait until it thaws, but the snow has already melted, and it will be too late to store water.  Fortunately, the terrain here is high, and the snow also flows downhill after it melts, so they don't worry about being flooded by the melted snow.

    "It's okay, just do a little bit every day, and you'll save more every day. Before the snow melts, you can finish it no matter what." When Xiao Zhijun came to visit this day, he talked about the situation of digging the water cellar, and said nonchalantly:  "This is not the busy spring plowing. We have to rush to sow the seeds in those few days. After the season, it will be too late. Isn't it too early before the snow melts?"

    "I can't say for certain, the weather can change as it changes." Qin Sheng was peeling peanut seeds. After the peanuts were harvested, he selected the big and plump ones to keep as seeds. At this moment, the family was sitting on the kang.  Peeling the peanuts, put the peanut seeds wrapped in red skins in the dustpan on the side: "Isn't there no sign of the temperature drop at the beginning, it's cold when it's cold."

    "That's true! Who knows what else God is waiting for us!" Xiao Zhijun couldn't help frowning when he heard it. If it was true as Qin Sheng said, the snow would melt suddenly.  People were caught off guard: "When I go back, I will get out the water cellar of our house first! By the way, I came here today to tell you something. Seeing that it is the New Year, when the freeze is thawed, we will get out of it!  It¡¯s time for spring sowing. This year¡¯s winter wheat is out of the question. We didn¡¯t plant any seeds at all a year ago. The few of us are discussing whether we should try planting spring wheat? Although it doesn¡¯t taste as good as winter wheat, it¡¯s white flour anyway.¡±

    Xiao Wu sneered: "That sounds good, do you have seeds?" They have always planted two crops of grain here, one crop of winter wheat, followed by another crop of corn, or replaced it with peanuts, soybeans, or at least a little sweet potato.  Other crop seeds?

    "Hi! Why don't I come to you! There's such a thing!" Xiao Zhijun said mysteriously: "When I went to the city two days ago, I met a seller of grain seeds.  In exchange, the price is quite expensive, but I have inquired about it, and he has spring wheat seeds in his hand, but there are not many, I think if you have such intentions, we will cover up the cooperation, so don¡¯t make a fuss about it.¡±

    Selling grain?  The movements of Xiao Wu's hands slowed down, why did he sound so unreliable: "That person specializes in selling seeds? Where did his seeds come from?"

    "That's their secret, can you tell us?" Xiao Zhijun said disapprovingly: "You can tell me your opinion. This spring wheat is a good product. It is resistant to drought and has a good yield. Although the taste is a bit bad, it is better than wheat.  Cornmeal is much better, isn't it?"

    If it is true, it is naturally good, but what if this is a liar?  Last year's autumn harvest was almost complete, and because of the traffic blockage, the national aid distribution encountered great difficulties. Spring is always a time of food shortage, or there is a word called green and yellow. Whoever has a little grain at home should be more careful  Hidden, someone came out to sell seeds at this time?

    "There is no need to be so troublesome." Qin Sheng listened to them talking, and suddenly said: "I'm afraid Mr. Zhang will come back in a few days. If you want to get seeds, where else is more reliable than his old man?"

    When it was the coldest year ago, Mr. Zhang and the others were taken back by the worried children at home. Before leaving, the old man still couldn't forget the spring plowing in the village in the coming year, and he had already agreed that he would come back when the time came.

    "I'm worried about whether Mr. Zhang can come back." Xiao Wu sneered. At the beginning, Zhao Meigui reminded them of Mr. Zhang's identity. Now that Zhao Meigui has her own thoughts, she will let him go back to Xiao's house.  The stockade?

    "Fuck! She can't be so sinister, right?" Lu Lenian felt bad after hearing this. He didn't know Zhao Meigui very well. At that time, he thought she was a shy and cute little girl: "She keeps people  What's the benefit of going down?"

    "The benefits are great??Is it to make Shen Ling pay more attention to her?  "Qin Sheng sighed, women who are in love, how many of them can still maintain reason?

    Unexpectedly, before the snow had melted, Mrs. Zhang and Aunt Zhou were escorted back to Xiao's village by a group of people.

    "The year is over, what am I still doing at home?" Mr. Zhang said disapprovingly: "Besides, the children are also busy, and our old couple can't help much at home, so we might as well come back quickly!"

    When Qin Sheng asked about the people who sent them here, Old Zhang said angrily: "It's outrageous! It's outrageous! What you said before was very good. He said he was here to pick us up and send us over. How could he pick us up for us?"  If you go to the city, you won¡¯t let me go! You say that I am a researcher of farming, what can I study in the city? Reinforced concrete planting? Playing the piano randomly! They couldn¡¯t hold me back, and finally sent me back.¡±

    Sure enough, Zhao Meigui did not forget this high-level talent in the last days, and urged Shen Ling to take him over, but it was a pity that they didn't know Zhang Lao's temper, and they had no choice but to send him over in the end.

    Mr. Zhang obviously had a lot of thoughts when he came here this time, and he didn't reveal his worries until eating: "There is a bug plague in the south, it's not as cold as here, and many bugs that overwintered have not frozen to death.  When you open it, there are densely packed insect eggs."

    It just so happened that there was a plate of deep-fried silkworm chrysalis on the dinner table today, which was sent by Xiao Zhijun. Xiao Wu and his family didn't like this bite. Qin Sheng knew about insects, no matter if they were silkworm chrysalis or grasshoppers, and he never touched them.  But my aunt's family likes these things very much. Their family used to raise silkworms, and they would leave some silkworm chrysalis to eat for themselves every year.

    As a result, Xiao Zhijun couldn't whet his appetite looking at the golden silkworm chrysalis.

    "There shouldn't be such a problem here." Qin Sheng frowned: "It's so cold that even people can't resist it. Even if there are insect eggs in the ground, I'm afraid they will freeze to death."

    "Don't worry about it for a while." Mr. Zhang shook his head: "But how long has it been? Who knows if the pests in the south will move north, such as the Asian migratory locust, which can fly.  If it becomes the weather, flying over to cover the sky and the sun, it will be a thousand miles away!"

    For a while, the atmosphere became heavy. If a locust plague really happened, people would starve to death by then.

    "Then how do you deal with those insect eggs in the south?" Lu Lenian asked curiously: "If you don't clean up these insect eggs, won't this year's crops be able to be planted?"  share!

    "The eggs can only be manually turned out, and then set on fire. But there are so many eggs in the ground, every time you turn them over, you can find the fish that slipped through the net." Mr. Zhang picked up the white wine in front of him, frowned and took a sip:  "Insecticides have also been used, and they don't work at all! These bugs have mutated! The previous insecticides and pesticides are no longer effective against them, but new drugs have not been researched yet!"

    "When the time comes, if you really don't have anything to eat, just eat these bugs!" Xiao Zhijun said fiercely, "It's high in protein after all! Any dish in a restaurant before the end of the world will cost a lot of money!"

    Qin Sheng was suddenly nauseated, Xiao Wu gave Xiao Zhijun a hard look: "How can you be sure that the mutated insects are not poisonous and can be eaten?"

    Xiao Zhijun scratched the back of his head, and suddenly he was speechless, he really couldn't be sure about this.

    "Quack quack quack!" The flock of geese outside suddenly became noisy, Xiao Wu thought that someone was at home, so he went out to check, and after a while he came back with an ugly face, holding a dead snake in his hand.

    Just by looking at the triangular pointy head, you can tell that this thing is definitely a poisonous snake!

    "Where did it come from?" Qin Sheng was taken aback, where did the snake come from in the ice and snow?  Don't snakes need to hibernate after they mutate?

    "Our chickens are dug out from the ground." Xiao Wu threw the dead snake aside. This snake is not too big, with thick thumbs and long forearms. He has never seen such a snake here before: "Goose  The group saw it and went to grab it, and started fighting."

    "Fighting?" Qin Sheng's eyes widened in disbelief. Their geese are the most dominant in the Xiao family's village. Whether it's a human or a ferocious dog, they have to go around and avoid them.  : "Are you sure it's our domestic chicken?"

    Being able to dig out a hibernating snake from the frozen ground, this snake is certainly extremely unlucky, but this chicken seems a bit outrageous, right?  Dare to fight with the bandit geese: "Could it be that after the geese, even the chickens have mutated?"

    Thinking about it, it¡¯s not impossible. These chickens and geese came to the house at about the same time. Before the geese mutated and evolved into robbers, their diet and feed were similar. It doesn¡¯t make sense that the geese can mutate and the chickens can¡¯t.

    Xiao Zhijun couldn't sit still immediately, he had been coveting the geese of Xiao Wu's family for not a day or two, and when he learned that there was a fighting chicken among the chickens, he immediately went to observe and observe excitedly, but was held down by Xiao Wu.

    "I advise you not to go out right now." Xiao Wu said with a serious face: "There are chicken feathers and goose feathers flying all over the ground outside, are you sure that if you go out, you won't become their unanimous target  ?¡± (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com)He couldn't sit still anymore, he had been coveting the geese of Xiao Wu's family for not a day or two, and when he learned that there was a fighting chicken among the chickens, he immediately went to observe and observe excitedly, but was held down by Xiao Wu.

    "I advise you not to go out right now." Xiao Wu said with a serious face, "There are chicken feathers and goose feathers flying all over the ground outside, you are sure that if you go out, you will not become their unanimous target  ?¡± (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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